All the stories don't always have a happy ending.

OS 3 Part 3 : A bitter freedom.

OS in some parts, centred on Rapunzel, her awakening after her father left her, and her life in the tower until she was released from it.

Pairing : No pairing (light Prince/Rapunzel)

Since Rapunzel was prisoner of the witch, four long years passed, as she tried not completely loose hope. But it was in vain. The witch talked to her about a hundred year, and it had been a so long time since she was there. She couldn't support it any more. She was twenty, and she felt so, so old... And desperate.

The loneliness was something terrible to her, the simple idea to be forced to be more than ninety years with this damn witch didn't please her. She missed her father, but he wasn't the only one she wanted to be with. She would have given anything to be able to see Belle again, to tell her how she cared for her, that, and other things...

Belle had been her friend before it, before the darks days, before the Beast came and began to denature everything. The fact that her father took her from the court, Rapunzel accepted it, but she would have wanted not to be separated from her friend she cared so much for (she didn't know at that time what she really felt for he, after all, she was just six years old. But nothing happened between them then after that.)

Oh, of course, she saw again the princess after, but during parties. She had been stupefied by her beauty, her kindness, and her innocence, not understanding why her father looked at the adolescent of fourteen years, as Rapunzel was, with a mix of fascination, horror, sympathy, and regret. And, after this strange moment, she couldn't help but questioning her father about that. Never Rumplestiltskin seemed to her as old as he was at this moment.

And he explained her. And it took time to him; he talked about the queen, who didn't come really from their world. And he also deal with the love between this human king and this woman from the see that had to give up her world for him. And Belle, of course, that everyone saw as an angel, and that no one would have seen as a demon, and who was both of them, in a way. He told her what the Beast was, what she did; and worst, what she could do, things worst surely, if they let her act.

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Despite her former friendship (they didn't see each other now), the young girl reacted rapidly :

"But dad, why don't we stop her ? She is dangerous, we can't let her act. What she does, it's... inhuman."

There had been the cat, Domino, killed by her, and also this stable boy, she hit several time and that almost died, as she almost killed him. And of course, she wouldn't stop, at least not before the beast died, or that she was destroyed.

Unlike her father, Rapunzel, as she knew all the horror that the young princess could inspire and all she did, wasn't able to see her not as a horrible monster. The beauty that hypnotized everyone on the court, as Rapunzel' father, Rumplestiltskin, or the young men in the castle, now disgusted the young Rapunzel.

All that she succeeded to see in her was the monster that the innocent young woman hide in her, and she refused since this day to see her again (she was afraid... no, she was terrified, none because of the double-nature of Belle, but by the fact that no one would have been brave enough to stop her if she showed her true nature). And despite that, despite all of this, she couldn't be angry at Belle. She didn't choose to be the Beast, worst, she knew none of it.

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But today, as she was isolated in this tower, without her father, she may missed the princess more than anyone. When she succeeded to sleep (and that after hours of insomnia), she dreamt about her, both of them, sometime her father himself (from their past memories), or only Belle.